Police positively identify remains as Catskill man missing for a year

CATSKILL, N.Y. >> State police have positively identified the remains of a body as a man who was missing for more than a year, authorities said Wednesday.

The remains were found at the house in which the missing man had last lived, police said.

State police at Catskill executed a warrant on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 124 Tool House Road in Catskill and, as a result, recovered the remains of a body identified as Brandyn Dayne “Multy” Foster, 31, of Catskill, authorities said.

The remains were removed Tuesday and police were still awaiting autopsy results Wednesday, according to state police senior investigator Peter Kusminsky.

He would not say Wednesday whether this is considered a homicide investigation nor would he explain why police discovered Foster’s body on Tuesday after searching and excavating on Tool House Road in October. Kusminsky said additional information would be released on Thursday or Friday.

Foster has been missing since January of 2017 and had last lived on the Tool House Road property, police said. Foster was a rapper and the son of jazz drummer Al Foster.

Foster, 31, originally of Woodstock, was living in Catskill at the time of his disappearance. In October, Kusminsky said there was, “a strong indication that he is deceased.”

Kusminsky had said Foster’s disappearance first was reported to Woodstock police on Jan. 26, 2017, by his mother, who lives in the town.

Foster’s mother, Bonnie Steinberg, said her son was “a great human being” and an “exceptional father” to his 10-year-old son.

Foster’s disappearance was considered suspicious because he had “no contact whatsoever with family members,” Kusminsky had said.

In October, police investigating Foster’s disappearance had searched at two locations in the village of Catskill, Kusminsky said.

Investigators had searched 126 Tool House Road and 139 Broom St. in the Greene County community. That work, which involved digging at both locations, resulted in “some items” being collected, Kusminsky said at the time.

He did not identify the items then and said police were not yet sure if they are pertinent to the investigation.

Kusminsky had said that Foster’s car was recovered, and that none of Foster’s possessions have been located.

Assisting the investigation is the Greene County District Attorney’s Office, Ulster County District Attorney’s Office and FBI, police said.